127. Which Load Balancer should you use?
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An overview of load balancers, explaining how they distribute traffic across multiple servers and provide high availability. We discuss layer 4 and layer 7 load balancers, detailing their pros and cons. We then focus on AWS load balancers, covering network load balancers and application load balancers in depth, including their features, use cases, and pricing models. We conclude by mentioning some alternatives to AWS load balancers.
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🔖 Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and overview of load balancers 02:00 Challenges of managing upgrades and deployments with a single server 05:12 The OSI networking model 08:02 Layer 4 vs layer 7 load balancers 10:54 Pros and cons of layer 7 load balancers 13:05 AWS load balancer types 14:20 Network load balancers overview 16:26 Application load balancer features 20:16 Lambda functions as targets 20:59 Load balancer pricing overview 22:40 Alternatives to AWS load balancers
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